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Nova Scotia, New England, New York, New Jersey to the St Lawrence River

This beautiful chart shows the limits between the French and the Americans after the end of the Revolutionary War.

Chart Information

Reference:

A120

Date

1780

Hydrographer/Surveyor/Artist:

J.F.W. Des Barres

Size Of Original:

w 48.5" x h 34"

Paper Type

Innova Smooth Cotton 315gsm

Further Information

This print is
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A120

Original

w48.5" x h34"

$409

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A120x

Half

w34" x h24"

$203

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Read the full Chart History here:

This is a final state or impression of a chart originally drawn in 1777. Over the years the plate was changed and added to, to reflect different political interests. Previous impressions were much simpler and did not include as much detail. The note at the bottom of the chart which states that 'the Shoals of Nantucket which in the proceeding Editions of this Chart were laid down from a Sketch sent me by Lieu’ Knight of the Navy, extended too far to the southward, are corrected in this, and the Soundings he has lately taken are added’ (see Heritage Charts A101, A113 and A115) was added in later 1778. The original inscription had the added line; ‘and the track of HMS Eagle Sept 1778 in chace [sic] of the French fleet'’ which was removed for this imprint. The word ‘
Quebec’ was added to the right of the Bar scales in 1780.

This chart was hand-colored to show the territorial boundaries under British control confining the Americans and the French after the French-Indian war which ended with the Treaty of Paris in February 1763. The Treaty had given
Britain control of
Florida from
Spain, and
Quebec and the rest of North America, east of the
Mississippi, from
France. The hand written inscription on the bottom of the Bar scale denotes: ‘where the subjects of
France are allowed’; ‘Where the American are’ and where the French are permitted ‘to cure and dry their fish’ (on the small islands of Miquetor, Langley and St. Peter’s – just south of
Newfoundland). Could the style of this inclusion be an indication of British attitudes toward the French at the time?

Amongst the other points of interest shown on the Chart are:

The number of soundings included south east of
Nova Scotia around the
Island of
Sable, which was at the time known as the ‘sailors graveyard’.

Soundings marks with a circle denote those where the sounding-line or ‘Lead’ did not touch the bottom of the sea at that point.

The extraordinary detail attached to the relief of land, especially the rivers, the most significant of those being the Hudson or North River going north from New York, through Albany, Ticonderoga, Lake Champlain and then onto Montreal on the great St. Lawrence in Canada. This was the region most hotly contested throughout the French-Indian war and later in 1776/7 during the War of Independence where control of the ‘corridor’ was seen by the British as the initial answer to the rebellion. If the British could link forces from the north in
Canada and
New York in the south they might be able to cut-off and isolate the rebellious New England states from the rest of
America. The attempt failed with General Burgoyne’s defeat at
BemisHeights (between
Albany and
Saratoga) on 7th October 1777 and his eventual surrender on the 17th October.